Improvement in swings



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FRANCIS, HOVEY, OF IPSW-ICH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 HIMSELF AND JGHN ALBERT BROWN, 0F SAME PLAGE. l

Letters Patent No'. 112,708, dated March 14, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN SWINGS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Iatent and making part of the same.

To all persons to whom these presents 'may come Be it known that I, FRANCIS HovnY, of Ipswich, of the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new andpuseful Portable Swing; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure l is a front elevation, and

Figure 2, a side View of such swing.

It is composed mainly of a pendulous-swng, A,and a supporting gallows-fraine, B, resting on or provided with rockers O G, the swing A being pivoted at its upper part to and arranged within the frame B, in manner as shown.

A pole or handle, D, pivoted or hinged to the upper portion of the frame B, servesto enable a person to rock such frame and' thereby impart a pendnlons motion tothe swing, the whole being designed for the exercise and pleasure of a child.

- The body a of'- the swing may be made of wood, or it may be of wicker or basket-work, orbebf metal, it being fixed to the arms or pendants projecting down from the cap-bar of the frame or from an auxiliary bar, b, as sho\vn,.pivoted at its ends to the frame. A

I make no claim to a swing and an upright sta.

tionary trame to support such, such having been well known and in common use for many years; nor do I claim a rocker-frame made and provided with a pen' dent swing-rope, -as represented in the United States patent No. 79,401; but

What I do claim as an improvement is- The pole D, joined to the swing, as described.

` FRANCIS HOVEY.

Witnesses:

' B. H. EDDY,

J. R. SNOW.\ 

